The Shepherd, the Angel, and Walter the Christmas Miracle Dog (Paperback)

from kirankinny

It's quiet impressive. I only listened to the audiobook, and I recommend the audiobook instead of normal book. It hits almost all notes of a feel good story. It is small yet big on emotion, funny and witty without being juvenile. A high school boy, his family which includes father-mother- younger...

from tipsister

Any Dave Barry fans? If you are, you'll enjoy this one. It's not one of his normal humor books. It is a sweet story that will make you laugh and maybe cry just a little. This little book, coming in at just over one hundred pages, is filled with pictures of Christmases past and old memories. It ta...

from Maydacat

There is a lot going on in this little novel, but then it's Christmas - a busy time even in the 60's. The church Christmas pageant is a big deal, boys had crushes on girls but couldn't show it, mom was busy getting everything perfect for Christmas, and though it's never a good time for the family...

from burnit99

A Christmas tale from the early 1960's, which makes the narrator, Doug Barnes, about the same age kid that the author, Dave Barry, would have been. Not that this is remotely autobiographical, as the author protests...too much. Anyway, the gist of the story centers around the Christmas pageant at ...

from Jenson_AKA_DL

The year is 1960 and young Doug shares with us his reminisces of red ants, rubber cigar smoking kings, musical shepherds, very large dogs and, of course, his first crush, Judy Flanders. At 116 pages The Shepherd, the Angel and Walter the Christmas Miracle Dog is not much more than a novelette. Ho...